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AH 099

Text Information

Siglum
AH 099
Alternative Sigla
Sima 1999: 43
Transliteration
ḥmy/bn/wʾl/ḏ- ldʿ/ʾẓll/h- ẓll l- ḏġbt/bʿd ḏ- {k}n/l- -h/b- bd– r[/][f][ʾ]ṯb -h/w rḍ {-h}
Translation
Ḥmy son of Wʾl of the lineage of Ldʿ performed the ẓll-ceremony for Ḏġbt for the sake of what {belongs} to him in Bd– r {and so} {reward} him and favour {him}

Interpretation

Apparatus Criticus
TEXT Lines 1–2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ḏrdʿ rather than ḏldʿ; Sima: ʾ[l]dʿ for ḏldʿ. Line 2. Abū l-Ḥasan: ʾṭll h- ṭll rather than ʾẓll h- ẓll. Line 5. Sima: [b]ṯb -h w rḍ [-h] rather than [w][ʾ]ṯb -h w rḍ. Line 6. Sima: ---- rather than {-h}. TRANSLATION Line 2. ʾẓll h- ẓll, Sima: '(he) covered the subterranean water-channel'. Line 3. bʿd, Sima: 'in the direction of'. DISCUSSION Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2014: 15–16, for the place name Bdr. Hidalgo-Chacón Díez 2016: 128, for the divine name Ḏġbt.
Commentary
Line 5. The prayer formula is not introduced by the conjunction f-. It could have been a mason's mistake. In addition to that, the verb rḍ, which is usually placed immediately after the conjunction f- and before of the rest of the prayer, has been written in this text at the end of the prayer.

Provenance
Al-ʿUḏayb (Jabal ʿIkmah)
Original Reading Credit
OCIANA
Original Translation Credit
OCIANA

Technique
Incised

Associated Inscriptions
It is to the right of U 071 and to the left of U 081

  • Abū ʾl-Ḥasan, Ḥ.ʿA.D. Qirāʾah li-kitābāt liḥyāniyyah min ǧabal ʿakmah bi-minṭaqat al-ʿulā. Al-Riyāḍ: Maktabat al-malik fahd al-waṭaniyyah, 1997. pp 252–255 Plate 13
  • Sima, A. Die lihyanischen Inschriften von al-ʿUḏayb (Saudi-Arabien). (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 1). Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 1999. pp 43
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, M. del C. Place names in the Dadanitic inscriptions of al-ʿUḏayb. Adumatu 30, 2014: 15-30
  • Hidalgo-Chacón Díez. M. del C. The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 46, 2016: 125–136
Site
The oasis of al-ʿUlā, Al-Madīnah Province, Saudi Arabia
Current Location
In situ
Subjects
Deity, Genealogy, Isolated Prayer, Lineage, Place-name, Religion
Script
Dadanitic
Old OCIANA ID
#0037768
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